The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Letters on miscellaneous subjects. Letters relating to American politics

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Seite 44 ... arithmetic and dancing , and speaks French better than English . He made a
translation of your last letter to him , so that some of your works may now appear
in a foreign language . He has not been long from me . I send the accounts I have
...

Seite 87 The compass appears to have been long known in China , before it was known in
Europe ; unless we suppose it known to Homer , who makes the Prince , that lent
ships to Ulysses , boast that they had a spirit in them by whose directions they ...

Seite 267 Your wishes for å cordial and perpetual friendship between Britain and her
ancient colonies are manifested continually in every one of your letters to me ;
something of my disposition on the same subject may appear to you in casting
your eye ...

Seite 450 ... while their commerce the source of their wealth diminisbes ; and though they
have flattered themselves with obtaining assistance from Russia , and other
powers , it does not appear that they are likely to succeed ; on the contrary , they
are in ...

Seite 456 Independent in my principles and unconnected with party , I speak those
sentiments , which circumstances , appear to ... A federal union between America
and England , upon the broad basis of mutual convenience , appears to me a
point of ...